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I first posed this question back in 2000. "Do contributors over sixty object to being referred to as elderly?" When I read the papers and watch TV news I keep finding that I belong to one of two blocks. I am either elderly or a pensioner. The former is a subjective judgement often used censoriously; the latter is an indisputable fact. Neither are collective nouns or titles. The annoying thing is that both seem to be used as synonyms for stupid or reactionary. To take a quote from a recent piece about post office closures.
"Elderly pensioners need to be able to go and draw their pensions in cash. At their age they can't be expected to cope with bank accounts". Gwyneth (my daughter) said to me "I don't know who they are talking about when they say elderly. It's certainly not you or Simon's Mum and Dad, certainly not my friend of your sort of age".
To add to this similar comments are now being made regarding the bank's proposal to phase out cheques. Now it is not bank accounts but cards and online banking.
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